Very sorry that I don't have an answer, only a followup question related to
character sets
I'm a sheltered American, unfamiliar with anything beyond the default
ISO-8859-1. However, I run FreeSQL.org and I'm absolutely amazed at the
international usage I receive. This has caused me a fair amount of
difficulty when trying to communicate with non-english speaking users.
Often I have to contact a FreeSQL user, and it would help if I could
determine their native language so that I could compose a message (I'll
probably use a set of default templates) that they would immediately
understand.
My question is, suppose a user had a database containing tables with all
chinese text (or korean or arabic (farsi?) or japanese). Is there any way
that I can determine this? I don't even know what chinese characters
would look like in a table! Is it stored as unicode?
In the best of all possible worlds I would like to be able to (via script)
compose a message in english ("the database server will be down between 0200
and 0400 GMT tomorrow") and be able to select the appropriate destination
language for each user.
Regards,
Gary "SuperID" Huntress
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter D. Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: Mysql and Japanese Characters
> Hi everybody,
>
> I need some help !!!
> does anyone now how to store "japanese" content into mysql ???
> I found out that using a VARCHAR field set to binary does seem to work;
> but how can I manage larger amounts of text, since TEXT data type does not
> support binary encoding?
>
> pppplease ... or iŽll do harakiri
>
>
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